完形填空
One day in September we were doing some repairing on my parents' old house to get it ready for my youngest daughter's wedding.We had to 1 a great climbing plant that had grown 2 a roof beam(房梁), so that we could repair the roof and 3 the walls.
When my husband was taking the plant away, he found a nest(鸟巢)of a blackbird that had made its home in the leaves.He then 4 something 5 among that mass of earth and straw(稻草)of the nest.He broke the earth around it into pieces with his finger tips and, to his 6 , saw glittering(闪闪发光)gold.It was a child's bracelet(手镯).He ran into the house to show me.
“You won't believe that the blackbirds not only steal the best fruit we 7 to feed on,”he said,“but they also want their children to 8 in a cradle(摇篮)of gold!”
When my daughter came over on the eve of the 9 , we told her about this 10 thing.
“Don't you remember, Mother?”she said with a loud laugh.“When I was eight, you gave me a bracelet that I 11 a few days later while out playing in the yard?It was this one!”
As the bracelet no longer 12 its owner and was dirty, I decided to take it into my safekeeping(保管箱).
In December of the following year, the young couple's baby son was baptized(受洗礼).Among the 13 the newborn baby received, I placed his mother's bracelet, now shining like 14 .I hope that if my grandson ever loses it, one of the 15 that live in my backyard is somewhere nearby.